Chapter 223: 223 - Her soul isn’t the same.

After the other three members of the group got over the shock of Qingyi’s tremendous breakthrough speed, they could only sigh in defeat.

Everyone there thought they were geniuses... but how could they compare to Qingyi?

Fortunately, they couldn’t spend too much time thinking about it. Their mission would start soon and they needed to get organized.

The aim of the mission was simple: to get close to some key figures in the demon cult, extract information and then leave.

Among these figures was the current heir to the demon cult and the only one of his generation to inherit the Heavenly Demon bloodline.

Ruyan had spoken a little about this figure and Qingyi was already sure that it was someone who should die.

Not only was the demon cult’s young lord a sadistic son of a bitch, but he was even a disgusting incestuous man who had sexual interests in his own sister.

At the very least, Qingyi would castrate him for that.

After discussing the key figures and the information they needed to obtain from them, it was time to define the form of infiltration.

The demon cult received thousands of members every year, so it wasn’t too difficult to blend in.

The only problem was that they also had many demon cultivators infiltrating the orthodox alliance and these cultivators naturally reported everything, including their faces.

Fortunately, the fat man was an expert in illusions and knew just how to solve this with simple artifacts; spirit masks.

These masks would change their appearance completely, but not only that.

They would also change their Qi, adding strands of demonic Qi to it.

Qingyi had to admit that this was incredible as he raised his hand and covered it with lightning Qi.

It was identical to his normal Qi, only tinged with a disgusting smell and a reddish color.

"Any more questions?" Yedu asked.

After everyone shook their heads in denial, he smiled softly. "Good, we’ll be leaving together at dusk in two days, we’re going on foot, so the journey should take a few weeks, prepare yourselves well."

Without further ado, Yedu got up and went back to his room.

Qingyi did the same, closing his eyes and entering the world of Ruxue’s mind, where he threw himself onto the large imperial bed and began to cultivate with his wives.

As the difference in cultivation between him and them grew, and the first of them reached mortal grade spirit roots, their cultivation speed naturally exploded even more.

Soon, Yunfei, Feiyan, Elize and Yueli all reached the crystalline core realm, while the other girls reached the burning blood realm.

He really wanted to spend a bit more time with them, but it was about time to leave and he had one last thing to see.

The temple’s spiritual garden, a huge plantation managed directly by Feiyan and Yueli, surrounded by spiritual arrays capable of greatly accelerating the growth of spiritual herbs.

The first ones planted by Feiyan were already about to ripen, but they honestly didn’t catch Qingyi’s eye.

They had been planted a few months ago and were only plants from the outer region of the continent, with almost no value in the nine peaks basin.

He was only going to buy a few more seeds before he left, but then he remembered something.

Opening his storage ring, he pulled out a small plant.

A white flower in the shape of a rose, its petals crystalline and icy, exuding a Qi of ice that was powerful enough to make him shudder, even after all his breakthroughs.

That was the flower he had obtained after rescuing Yunfei in the forbidden zone of the Heavenly Spirit Mountain.

As well as freezing the world around it, it also had a rather interesting effect: it gathered pure Qi and made the spiritual herbs around it grow much faster.

Walking to the center of the plantation, Qingyi knelt down and planted it there.

The change around it was instantaneous, its roots clinging desperately to the ground, a powerful ice Qi spreading out of control.

Normally, this kind of Qi would kill everything, but that’s not what happened.

The herbs around it grew stronger, even the fire Qi herbs filling with vitality.

Qingyi didn’t know how long it would last, but he had to admit that it was incredible.

Buying some more higher-level seeds for Feiyan, Qingyi left.

If his plans worked out, he wouldn’t even need to spend any more lust points on resources for Feiyan to produce his pills.

Ruxue’s world of the mind would be able to provide the girls with everything they needed.

Of course, the cost of keeping it stable was rising sharply and he still needed to supply Ruxue with a lot of Qi crystals, but that was something he would deal with another time.

***

Many thousands of kilometers away, the Eternal River Sect was as calm as ever.

"Are you sure about this?" Yanxiao asked an old man with gray hair and senile eyes in front of him.

"Yes! Of course I am, do you think those little eyes are lying to me? I saw this woman a few centuries ago and now, I’ve seen her again.

I assure you, her soul isn’t the same, she’s being controlled, controlled by something that came through that hole in the heavens twenty-nine years ago! Think about it, it all makes sense!"

Hearing those words, Yanxiao gritted his teeth.

That man was the greatest soul cultivator in the entire nine peaks basin, someone he had personally called to meet the sect leader and, without being noticed, take a look at her.

Listening to his opinion, it all made sense.

About twenty-nine years ago, a hole between the mortal and immortal heavens opened up in a place where his sect leader was.

In that same time, her personality changed almost completely and she built the secret realm of the supreme beast, a feat that he was sure was beyond her abilities.

The difficulty with Qi, the change in personality... how could he not have thought of this before?

If she was being controlled by someone, it all made sense.

"Thank you very much for your help, I’ll pay you well for your services." Yanxiao said as he turned around. "For now, I’ll put the sect leader under house arrest and continue investigating."